The last day! There was a half-marathon (or maybe a 10k?) past our hotel the last morning. These people were intense. We watched them while we ate our breakfast of meats and pastry.
In the grand tradition of my last five vacations, I was sick and kind of miserable by the end of this trip. We always plan for a low-key last day anyway, usually shopping and wandering in our favorite spots one more time. This square is at the heart of El Born and we walked through many times every day.
The Joan Miro museum is up on a hill overlooking town, with a funicular to the top. We walked a really long way to get over to the funicular station and discovered it's closed. Then we waited for a bus for a while with an increasingly large crowd of people, and then I used the taxi app and we took a private car to the top for 6 Euros instead. Way better!
The Miro museum was great. Like the Picasso museum, it was a progression through his life as an artist and had a lot of interesting stuff I hadn't seen before. The Miro exhibits I've seen elsewhere are all sort of the same, but there's a lot more to his work than I expected.
Ben pointed out that the floor in this place looks just like the St. Joe North Belt McDonald's.
The museum had great views of the city.
After the experience of these two museums in Barcelona, I've decided I like art museums mainly when they're a) modern and/pr contemporary or b) dedicated to a single artist. Wandering around endless halls of medieval Jesuses and Renaissance portraits is just not all that interesting.
After the museum, we walked all the way back down the hill and through town. This walk took us through some seedier parts of Barcelona - maybe the parts people are afraid of? - but it still felt basically fine. We went into a t-shirt shop we'd had our eye on for a while and then went back to the hotel so I could rest.
For dinner we headed straight back to Tapeo, the place from the night before - it was Sunday, so most things were closed, and we'd noticed specifically they'd be open. Tapeo is a gem!
I didn't have much specific interest in going to Barcelona before we bought the tickets, and now I wonder why - it's a great city. Spain is great!
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